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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in online education have made it possible for learners all over the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these significant new open education ventures. Scholars want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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